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In gay rights stand, OkCupid urges users to ditch Firefox

Visitors who access the dating site OkCupid using Firefox have been getting a slightly different experience from that of other browsers’ users. They’ve been seeing a message urging them to use some other browser:

“Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure," the message says.

Eich published a blog post last week explaining his position and promoting an “active commitment to equality in everything we do.”

“I know some will be skeptical about this, and that words alone will not change anything,” he wrote. “I can only ask for your support to have the time to ‘show, not tell’; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain.”

Mozilla
prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past
week, we didn't live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry,
and they are right: it's because we haven't stayed true to ourselves.

We didn't
act like you'd expect Mozilla to act. We didn't move fast enough to
engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do
better.

Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO. He's made this decision for Mozilla and our community.